Bath salt (real).Between the Constitution recitation and the chief-of-staff appointment, a bit of curious legislation went mostly unnoticed during today’s news cycle. No longer! Spotlight on Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, who has begun the fight against “fake bath salts,” the latest out-of-control drug craze among more than 150 people. “Since the end of September, Louisiana Poison Control has received 165 calls from people in crisis after snorting, smoking or injecting these dangerous substances,” a memo posted to the governor’s Web site notes. The hallucinogenic fake bath salts, which “are being marketed as bath salts and are being sold in individual bags on the Internet and in convenience stores,” are made with chemicals such as “3,4-Methylenedioxymethcathinone (Methylone), 3,4-Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), 4-Methylmethcathinone (Mephedrone), 4-Methoxymethcathinone, 4-Fluoromethcathinone, and 3-Fluoromethcathinone,” although any psychedelic properties may simply be side effects of attempting to pronounce “Methylenedioxymethcathinone.” “It’s now illegal to possess and use these dangerous chemicals,” said Jindal. Might this ban affect real bath salts? Your blogger, always the sort to buy bath salts but never actually get around to use them, was concerned about the threat to their survival. We called the Bath & Body Works on Saratoga Street in New Orleans to inquire whether the supply of bath salts has dried up. Do you still have bath salts? we asked an affable woman named Pam. “Only in aromatherapy,” she told us. Bath & Body Works carries eucalyptus, spearmint, and lavender-vanilla bath salts—a stash that’s sure to transform the conveniently located and reasonably priced toiletries stores into the speakeasies of our era.